Steve In Ink - A President Who Actually Admits Mistakes
Philadelphia Inquirer (2/5/09)
Every time a leading sports figure gets caught up in some questionable circumstance, there is instant talk-show clamor over the dearth of role models. If there is one person outside the family who is well-positioned to give children a standard of proper behavior, it would have to be the president of the United States.
Unfortunately, for most of his eight years in office, George W. Bush set a poor example in that he would not - or could not - comprehend the possibility of his making a mistake. If President Obama wants change, he can ensure it by continuing to take direct responsibility for things that go wrong.
And they certainly will, as this week’s botched nominations showed. No one’s perfect. Not every decision is the right one. Far from being an indication of weakness, though, conceding a mistake can be a powerful move toward proficiency.
You can’t begin to learn from Read more
Disappointed Bush Fails As A Role Model
Every time a leading sports figure gets caught up in some questionable circumstance there is instant talk show clamor over the dearth of role models. How in the world does a sports star who rarely gets within a mile of a real life experience until their star has long burnt out, gets pegged as a paragon of morality remains a societal enigma. The lessons that come from a Plaxico Burress, a Roger Clemons or a Charles Barkley more fall in the “what not to do” course studies. But even Barkley, long ago dismissed his role model responsibility.
If there be one person outside the family who might well be positioned to give kids a standard from which they might determine proper behavior it would have to be the President of the United States. Unfortunately, Read more
Steve In Ink - 2008’s Lessons For 2009 (Philadelphia Inquirer 12/31)
With a Happy New Year to y’all I give you some of the lessons 2008 was kind enough to leave for us to learn from…
S’Long Billy, We Hardly Heard Ye
As 2008 chokes away its last gasps of life, Bill O’Reilly’s radio career doest the same soon to be relegated to the dustbins of radio history. While there are those who will say that the Factor radio era will not be missed, I am not of that crowd.
I will miss his fool’s gold pipes and his laughable pretext of impartiality, but most of all I will miss Bill’s radio flair and style so reminiscent of the 1930’s and 40’s glory days of radio. The days of radio theater where shows like Orson Welles’s The War of the Worlds, a 1938 version of the H. G. Wells novel, convinced the logic-challenged Folks that Mars was actually invading Earth. That, Mr. Cavett, was entertainment.
There are those of you in some larger metropolitan areas like Philadelphia who may not even known that Bill had a radio show. At WPHT, the major talk signal in Philly, you would have had to tune in to their prime 12PM-2AM spot to find Bill’s taped Factor. But listening to a show that promotes Read more
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Happy Holiday and Thanks,
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